Window-shade fixture.



` Ne. 729.594. 'PATBNTBDJUNE 3.14903.

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WINDOW SHADE PIXTU'RB. APPLIGATION P ILBD JAN. 20, 1903. NOVVMODEL.

fg M. 913;

llllllll/ Patented J une 2, 1903.

UNITE STATES: ATENT OFFICE..

GEORGE R. JENNinGs, Or BROOKLYN, New YORK. l

`.WINnow-sienne"F-IXTUREQ SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 729,594, dated June 2, 1903.` 4 s duplication filed January 20, 1903. Serial No. 139,769. (No model.) i

To @ZZ whom it muy cm1/carin.:

Be it known that I, GEORGE R. JENN1NGs,1

lowing is a specication.

My invention relates to window-shade lixtures, and has for its objects to produce a simple and inexpensive Inechanism which may be readily attached to the casing of any` window for sustaining the shade-roller and permit the shade to be moved bodily up and down, thus admitting light `and air either above or below the shade and screening any desiredV portion of.` the window to exclude or soften the light.

To these ends the invention comprises the novel details of construction and combination of parts more fully hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying,r drawings, Figure l is a front elevation of a window frame or casing having my device applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a similar fragmentary View enlarged. f Fig. 3 is a sectional view illustrating the stops at the upper and lower ends of the guideway. Figs. 4 and 5 are detailed views of the ends of the curtain-roller, illustrating my improved' means for preventing lateral displacement offV the roller. Fig. 6 is a detailed perspective view of one of the brackets.

Referring to the drawings, l indicates a window-casing, which may be of the usual or any desired construction, and 2 twovertical tracks or guides, secured to the casing by screws or otherwise. These tracks, which are mounted one at either side of the window, are preferably made from suitable sheet-metal rolled or pressed into form to present two lats eral flanges by means of which the track may guide.

curely braced `and strengthenedto insure against accidental displacement of the same.

5 indicates a plate,- preferably ornamental' in character and in the form of a leur-de-lis, screwed or otherwise suitably secured to the window-casing beneath the track or guide and provided with an integral lug or linger G, which projects into the hollow web of the guide at its lower end, thus securely bracing and strengthening the same to prevent its accidental displacement in `a lmanner similar to that above described. This plate 5 also constitutes a stop for limiting the shaderoller-carryingbracketinits downward movement to prevent its escape from the track or 7 indicates two brackets slidably. mounted on the tracks or guides, one on each -side of the window-casing, which sustain the respective ends of the shade-roller andjwhich in their travel up and down upon? `their guides move the roller and its shadebodily up and down in order to bring the shade to any desired position for excluding `or softening at any point the light which enters the window. These brackets, which are moved up'and down upon the guides by suitable means to be hereinafter described,;are identical inconstruction and operation. Hence -butone of them-will be' describedgin detail. `E`acl1` bracket'is cast or otherwise formed from whichrests against the flan gedextensions of theguide to prevent unduelooseness or play of the bracket. The outer end or bridge 10 of the bracket is provided witha'suitable socket 10a, formed by an upwardlygprojecting integral finger 11, formed on theQbracket, said socketbeing adapted to receivea bearing-pin 12, which projects from the end of the curtain-roller 13, as usual, while the op posite end of the roller is provided `with a similarly-projecting end 14, having a head vided V,with a downwardly-depending portion IOC 15 formed at its outer end and adapted to engage the bracket to prevent lateral displacement of the roller. The bearing-pin l2,which is angular in cross-section, has-a suitable metal thimble applied thereto and carrying a head 16, which prevents lateral displacement of the roller in the opposite direction. In this connection it is to be noted that the thimble will frictionally engage the pin with sufficient security to prevent detachment of the thimble during ordinary usage of the device.

17 indicates a suitable cord or the like secured at one end to a screw-eye or other similar fastening 18 at the bottom of the Windowcasing and passed upward and around the sheaves or rollers at the top of the casing,

with its other end attached to the far shadesupporting bracket, while a second cord is attached at one end to the near shade-su pporting bracket and has its opposite end attached to a plate or member slidably mounted on the cord 17,`by which means the brackets will be simultaneously moved upward bya downward pull on the cord and will when the cord is slackened fall uniformly by gravity, thus moving the shade-roller bodily up and down for the purpose above specified. The bracketoperating cords are each attached to its respective bracket by passingits end through a suitable orifice formed in the bridge portion l0 of the bracket just at the upper or open end of the socket lOfL and knotting the same, by which construction the knot will constitute a stop to prevent the accidental escape of the bearing-pin from its socket.

19 indicates a cleat stamped from a single piece of metal and screwed to the Windowcasing in position to receive the cord by which the brackets are operated to hold the latter in their various positions.

2O is a plate, preferably ornamental in 11ature, which lies beneath the cleat and is secured in place by the screw which holds the latter. This plate, which may contain the name of the company vor other desired working, serves as a shield to prevent soiling or in any man ner marring the Woodwork of the casing when cleating the cord.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is- 1. In a Window-shade ixture, the combination with ashade-roller, of end brackets therefor provided with sockets, bearing-pins proj ecting from the ends of the roller and mounted in the sockets, and means including a cord for moving the brackets up and down, said cord having its end passed through an orifice formed in the bracket and knotted at the open end of the socket, whereby the knot will constitute a stop to prevent accidental escape of the bearing-pin from the socket.

2. In a Window-shade fixture, the combination with a shade-roller,"of bearing-pins projectin g therefrom, end brackets provided with sockets adapted to receive the bearing-pins, and a metal thimble mounted upon onebf the pins and provided with ahead to prevent lateral displacement of the roller.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE R. JENNINGS.

Witnesses:

AnoLPH STERK, JOHN W. MADDEN. 

